Vice

    Vice
    2018

    Synopsis

    George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

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    Cast

    • Christian BaleDick Cheney
    • Amy AdamsLynne Cheney
    • Steve CarellDonald Rumsfeld
    • Sam RockwellGeorge W. Bush
    • Alison PillMary Cheney
    • Eddie MarsanPaul Wolfowitz
    • Justin KirkScooter Libby
    • LisaGay HamiltonCondoleezza Rice
    • Jesse PlemonsKurt
    • Bill CampGerald Ford

    Recommandations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Through wit, surprise and an irrepressible ballsiness comes a scorching humor that neither curdles nor becomes exhausted.
    • 88

      USA Today

      Exquisitely crafted...It’s a strange little amalgamation that totally works: a vicious Shakespearean satire about power-hungry mind-sets, stealth corruption, American ambition and the current state of divided affairs in our country, but also a quasi-fictional go-for-broke biopic about a political leader we really don't know at all.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence.
    • 80

      Empire

      An acting masterclass that neither pulls its punches nor sacrifices detail to pander to a mass audience, this is smart filmmaking from a director who gets better with every film — and a near career-best from Bale, which is saying something.
    • 79

      IGN

      Vice is a funny and vicious political commentary, revealing in clear, thrilling detail a man whom filmmaker Adam McKay considers one of the most insidious and dangerous political figures of the last fifty years. But that viciousness also makes Vice one-sided, even reductive.
    • 67

      IndieWire

      Buoyed by a brilliant transformation by Christian Bale, it offers a smart and detailed overview of Cheney’s elaborate ruse to exploit the country’s highest authority, but undercuts its authority with crass and often clunky humor that overstates the nature of Cheney’s villainy. Lame jokes just get in the way when the bad guys are hiding in plain sight.
    • 60

      Variety

      The movie, though it pretends to reveal how power works, is ultimately content to remain on the outside, sticking its finger in the eye of power.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Vice is as noisy as the media landscape that writer-director Adam McKay holds in contempt.

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